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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)

Keyboard Shortcuts with Free Download

As with all things ‘computer’ there are multiple ways to achieve a goal such as ‘Cut’, ‘Copy’, ‘Paste’or Navigate your cursor around a document. When you are typing (or there is a lack of ‘menu’ present) it is sometimes more expedient to use your keyboard rather than your mouse to do things.

Keyboard Shortcutshelp you save time by allowing you to never take your
hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts use a combination
of keys to achieve a Function’. For example: Have
you ever wondered what that Ctrl key was for? Well, if you press and hold that
down and then hit another key magical things will happen. The Shift and Alt
keys can be used as well.

I also find that by taking your hand away from the
keyboard to find your mouse to either click a Menu about your document or right
click to find the ‘Options’ menus, you can distract your focus on the task at
hand.

Keyboard shortcuts are also immensely handy for those
of you who use a lap top ‘track pad’ (naughty) instead of a mouse, so….

Step 1 is to
locate certain keys on your keyboard (as a lot of keyboards differ from one
another)…

Ctrl (Control) - usually the first and last keys on the bottom row

Shift - usually the first and last key of the second bottom row

Navigation Keys -usually grouped together or in a row downwards on the right hand side

Arrow Keys -Bottom right

F Keys -Very Top Row

Alt Key-usually either side of the Space Bar

Now you have located the Ctrl, Alt, Shift, F, Arrow
and Navigation Keys you can Download a printable version of this guide and keep them by your keyboard until you
learn them ‘by heart’.

Remember that keyboards can be different so these
shortcuts are a guide only. After you have printed this open up a word document
and type some text. Then go through the shortcuts and make sure they work for
you.

It’s always good practice to 'say' the commands as
you perform them...(all geniuses talk to themselves) For example;

Copy Command:
Ctrl+C

Say …‘hold Control and press C’

Here are a few to get you started...

MOST USED

Cutselected textCtrl + X

Copyselected text Ctrl + C

Undolast edit Ctrl + Z

PasteselectedtextCtrl + V

Redolast actionCtrl + Y

Task Manager (to stop a process when its stuck and taking forever to think about it or your computer is ‘frozen’)